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Floods in south-central provinces have killed at least 13 people while authorities have warned more bad weather is coming.

The Vienna Charity Ball will be held for the first time in Vietnam on November 12 and all donations will be sent to the Friendship Village in Hanoi.

Minimum salary at both domestic and foreign-owned enterprises will be raised beginning Jan. 1, 2011.

Australia's Qantas Airways grounded its fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbos Thursday after an engine failure forced a dramatic emergency landing in Singapore.

ASEAN-OECD seminar on administrative reforms will be organized in Vientam on November 25-26.

Travelers hoping to fly out of HCMC during Tet Festival are fast running out of options as tickets to many locations have been sold out.

Physicists in Scotland said they had devised a flexible material that manipulates light, marking a small step towards "invisibility" clothing beloved of science fiction writers.

The benchmark price of Vietnamese rice is likely to be stable between $380 and $500 a tonne next year, a top exporter said.

Hospital officials say the death toll from Indonesia's most volatile volcano has climbed by two to 40.

President Nguyen Minh Triet flew to the central provinces of Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan and Phu Yen, inspecting flooding and giving direct instructions on the steps to recovery.

ASEAN will take the initiative to participate in dialogues with the United Nations and other organisations of good will to improve the role of international law in key areas.

A five-year agreement calls for the social network's virtual currency to be the exclusive payment method for EA games.

Hanoi will spend 29 billion VND (1.45 million USD) in building 16 facilities to treat solid wastes from hospitals, to help minimize environmental pollution.

Republicans have retaken the House of Representatives as US voters rebuke President Barack Obama.

More than 30,000 people have registered to donate their corneas after death to support a cornea donation campaign.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development held a seminar on a programme to boost seafood exports to 2015 and achieve even greater export sales by 2020.

Vietnam’s tourism and sport authorities are joining hands with the World Match Racing Tour to consider whether Ha Long City is fit for an international yacht competition.

The Minsiter of Natural Resources and Environment outlined safeguards against a bauxite spill in Vietnam.

Confirming that Vietnam’s Cam Ranh port will not become a foreign military base but Minister of Defence said that a logistics center will be built to supply services for both.